Even the main made up our minds enemy of Festschriften could baulk at refusing one to Walter Burkert, for there are few students whose paintings has been extra universally sought after and applauded. at the celebration of his sixty fifth birthday in 1996 a gaggle of former students (Graf, Riedweg and Szlezák) and fellow students of Greek faith accumulated on the Römerstiftung René Clavel in Augst close to Basel to have fun his success with a symposium.